Design

Explore Milan’s hidden designer venues

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Anila Rubiku will be your guide on a tour of Milan's design venues.

Albanian born Italian artist, who studied at the Tirana Academy of Arts (1994), Anila did her post-graduate work in Milan at the Brera Academy (2000).

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Casa Studio Fornasetti

Casa Studio Fornasetti is a family home and studio of the great Piero Fornasetti. It is based in the Città Studi area and is well known in the creative and design world but is not open to the public, so this is a unique opportunity to see Piero's home and studio as it used to be.’

The building itself was commissioned and built by Fornasetti’s grandfather. Today it is the home and studio of Barnaba Fornasetti, the son of Piero Fornasetti, the prolific Italian artist and designer known for his highly decorative, surrealistic and distinctive work spanning the mid- 20th century. Piero Fornasetti has collaborated with architect Gio’ Ponti (the famous architect and designer). It is a magical place to see and experience and it is, of course, an essential and seldom-seen part of the hidden city that is Milan

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La Villa Necchi

Villa Necchi contains all the elements of Italian Art Deco. It was built between 1932 and 1935, in via Mozart 14, at the very heart of Milan.
The villa was designed by architect Pierto Portaluppi and then renovated by Tommaso Buzzi starting in 1938 for the Necchi Campiglios, a well-cultured, upper-class, industrial family that made its name in the production of cast iron and sewing machines between the 1920s and the 1960s. It is a jewel in the heart of Milan; a unique example of beauty and historic preservation. The Milanese gallerist Claudia Gian Ferrari gifted her art collection to Villa Necchi and this superb art collection is shown there as well.

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La Galeria di Massimo de Carlo

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